You're looking at (very) roughly 10 year lifespan on those things. Helps a LOT that you kept them properly stored and all, but once you're done moving, you take a weekend and transfer all that shit to a new medium, you hear? It's easy to just forget about the stuff in the attic until one day you're like, wow, do you remember when... And then you open up the storage and rats ate it all. It kind of really sucks. Don't be like that. Don't be rat man. Be great man. Or woman. Or whateveran.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I knew they don't have a long lifespan but didn't know it would be that short. I guess I'll see how they're holding up soon-ish. I mostly renewed them with 1080p versions of them by now but most likely not the same fansubs. Some of them might not have active torrents though, those would be nice to recover.

[–] Saturnalia@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because of this, some people have termed our current era as the digital dark ages. All of our digitally stored information has an extremely short lifespan and it will be hard for future generations to recover anything from media written today. Right now, the only way to ensure that data continues into the future is to make frequent backups on new media.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Thought of this is horrible but it seems that's where we are sadly. Even the 3000 year old tablets are still around yet we cannot recover 20 year old data because of sun burn and mites.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah don't make the mistake so many of us other shmucks did and think "ah, whatever, it's all online now anyway", because before you know it, no it ain't, and you just lost your last copy to mites.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

A lot of it ALREADY isn't.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

I hope I can recover them.

Hold up there little buddies, just a little more.

[–] dreugeworst@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I burned loads of DVDs with my favourite shows in the mid 2000s, almost none of them were readable only a few years ago.. good thing is I switched to a jellyfin server and found better encodes of pretty much all the shows

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Better encodes aren't necessarily better

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago

Fingers crossed. I hope I can recover some.